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1. To visit is the work of one that comes to do a charitable office to a sick person, according to that place (Matthew 25.), "I was sick and ye visited Me." So Christ came into this world because it languished of a sore disease.

2. To give a visit to another is a voluntary courtesy, an act of kindness that hath no compulsion or unwillingness in it: for he that visits any place or persons, if he did not like them he might keep away; but you cannot imagine more promptness and readiness in any one than there was in our Saviour, to be humbled to that baseness to take our nature upon him.

3. There is not only willingness, but friendliness in the appellation: no man visits another but in the profession of a friend; therefore St. Paul says upon the Incarnation (Titus 3:4), "the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared."

(Bishop Hacket.)

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KJV: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

WEB: "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and worked redemption for his people;